Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi reportedly told the EU that Beijing views a Russian defeat in Ukraine as unacceptable, fearing it would allow the US to concentrate on China. Despite China's official neutrality,

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the European Union’s top diplomat that Beijing can’t accept Russia losing its war against Ukraine as this could allow the United States to turn its full attention to China,

China cannot afford for Russia to lose the war in Ukraine, Beijing’s foreign minister has said, in unguarded comments to European officials.